{"product_id":"the-daughters-of-development-sinith-sittirak-9781856495882","title":"The Daughters of Development: Women in a Changing Environment","description":"This is a powerful feminist critique of the 'Western' concept of development. It is also an attempt to rediscover and rehabilitate traditional indigenous knowledge as an important basis for empowering women and re-establishing the foundation of reciprocity in North-South dialogue. The author looks at the wreckage \"progress\" has wreaked on the lives of Thai sex workers and of indigenous peoples globally and contrasts this with a portrait - in words and pictures - of her own \"undeveloped\" mother, 'gardener, agriculturalist, cook, entertainer, tool and toy inventor and maker, traditional doctor, resources manager, energy conservationist, food scientist, home economist, sustainable developer, ecologist and environmentalist'. In exploring the possibilities for an appropriate development path, Sinith Sittirak applies the framework of a political economy of development which acknowledges the politics of identity and difference. Central to her framework is the recognition that 'development' is part of that universalizing process which imposes sameness by speaking for or naming the 'Other' and by excluding difference.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Sinith Sittirak, Sinith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1856495884\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781856495882\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bloomsbury Publishing PLC\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/1998\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.52lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.56h x 5.51w x 0.43d","brand":"Sinith Sittirak","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44074039836927,"sku":"9781856495882","price":47.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_11592415-ffd7-4300-b9bc-3ef92edb6b14.jpg?v=1685451419","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-daughters-of-development-sinith-sittirak-9781856495882","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}